We did two days at Epcot last time but I still left feeling like we hadn’t really seen it. I think Epcot is one of those places that grows on you. To me it seems like it takes more effort than the other parks because you have to hunt things out and wander around rather than just stand in line and get on the ride.
The nice thing about Epcot is how spread out it is. Even though there are lots of people there it doesn’t feel as crowded, at least in the World Showcase area. But this can also be a bad thing because it means that no matter where you’re going it’s going to be a long walk. At the end of the day, my dogs were barking!
We started the day super early arriving at the gate about 7:40 for our 8:10 breakfast ressie at Akershus. G was dressed in her Belle outfit in anticipation of the princess meal. G loves to be dressed up in her “fancy” dresses and spent her time waiting to enter the park doing her version of ballet. As usual she often attracts quite a group of onlookers. She appears completely oblivious to those watching. She just twirls and whirls and waves her arms in the air swinging herself up to her tiptoes (her attempts at gracefulness). She truly does “dance like no one’s watching” and I love watching her. I know that all of a sudden, and let’s face it will probably be sooner rather than later, G is going to become more self conscious and her public dancing days will likely come to an end.
Anyway, they let us in and we were able to take some pictures of the nearly empty park on our way back to eat. Epcot is beautifully landscaped and the sky was overcast which makes for nice photos.
As it turned out our timing was pretty good and we made it all the way around the circle and ended up at Canada right about time for dinner at Le Cellier! Le Cellier is one of my gotta try places at Epcot and I was excited about going. Dinner was pricey but awesome!! The filet mignon was super tasty. The cheese soup was a bit salty but still yummy and the creamed spinach was the bomb!! Interestingly enough G chose steak as her entrée which surprised me because we eat so little beef. It must have been good though because she gobbled up the whole thing. Alternatively she was just completely starved because we didn’t stop for lunch but, either way, it was a huge success.
With dinner complete we headed back to the front of the park to use our Soarin’ fastpass. Fastpasses had been gone for hours and the stand by time by 7pm was up to 100 mins!!! Shockingly people were still getting into line. I seriously cannot even imagine waiting that long for a Disney ride but each person is different I guess. Soarin’ is also a Disneyland ride (well Calif Adventure actually) but for some reason we’ve never gone. It is a really great ride though and G was absolutely thrilled! She was grinning from ear to ear through the whole thing. It’s so fun to see her having fun :-)
By that time it was really getting late but G wanted to do Spaceship Earth. We did it, she loved it and we were finally on our way out of the park just about 12 hours after we’d arrived. We did get a few nighttime photopass shots done in front of the Spaceship Earth ball and I’m really hoping that one of them turns out. G crashed out on the way back to the condo. No great shock as we were all exhausted!
Everybody needs a Spaceship Earth photo!
Mulan spent a lot of time with G and showed her the warrior stance. G loved it!
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